Legal Opinion

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Texas Supreme Court

Decided May 8, 1882Published

1Opinion of the Court

Abandonment of Homestead — The most conclusive evidence of an intention to abandon a homestead is the "acquisition of another, and whatever clearly evidences such an intention, coupled with an actual removal is sufficient to establish the fact of abandonment. The record shows a removal to another place, which the father of the appellant’s husband had promised to give to him, and the declaration of the appellant after her removal and prior to the sale of the property, that she did not claim the same as her homestead. Held, coupled with an absence from the property for twenty years, with no…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Barnes v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1872
  2. Wilcox v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1859

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